Progressive-Fundamentalists Regulate The Police Rather Than The Criminals

Case Study: Errol Lewis

Bargain snitchers cost us dearly: When criminals become informants, there must be rules and limits

With the "Lou Dobbs Show" off of the air Errol Lewis has gone back to focusing on what he loves best: Muckracking.

The subject of the article above is the dirty underbelly of urban criminal justice - the "CI" - confidential informant.  Mr Lewis documents the claims that they are often unreliable.  With their own skin on the line facing jail time - they are often induced to cooperate with the police as they are employed to ensnare a larger fish that the police is after.

I am forced to agree Mr Lewis' drive to clean up this particular segment is different from the "Stop Snitching" phenomenon which is actually suppressive of justice and thus "Pro-Criminal".   I am none the less bothered with Mr Lewis' argument.

I have to admit that the progressive is always going to be more popular than me.  He gets to stand for "law and order".  He gets to be present at the "ribbon cutting" where the unjustly charged man gets let out of prison.   The progressive stands for higher values and indeed is a better man than I.

It is the backdrop within which he does his handiwork that should shine the light upon the functional value of his work and the conditions that he is enabling.  He focuses upon reform and regulation of THE SYSTEM.  Thus his talks to the AUTHORITIES and tells them how they must change.  All the while the operatives (ie: Street Pirates) who never get a talking to in regards to regulating their behavior to a given high standard are free to do what they please.   THIS is the unintended consequence of the focus that Progressive-Fundamentalists like Errol Lewis subscribe to.

Let us focus on the "ECO-SYSTEM" within which the official SYSTEM (police, prosecutors, jailers) operate within and key upon the fruit that it bears.   Mr Lewis and others are not held accountable for this produce.  They are always able to be the "good guys" who pressed for reform.  That row of young males who came through the "eco-system" and are now in jail?  Well they are just VICTIMS of the will of some other forces to keep them locked up as unproductive citizens.  They too must be helped rather than punished.

Note in the story how Mr Lewis focuses on the number of people who have had their murder convictions over turned.  We need to understand that the MURDER VICTIM did not return from the grave after this ruling.  Instead the vast majority of these cases are over turned on a technicality of some sort.   It is not affirm that the said person was not the murderer.  We can only conclude that in the context of the legal standards of this nation - upon review of the facts and the discredited testimony of at least one witness - the conviction was thrown out.  

The job of society is to wrestle with the delicate balance between the tolerance of "allowing an innocent man to serve time" and "allowing a guilty man to go free - to do it again".  

When I see Errol Lewis and other "Progressive Judicial Activists" go out and find the REAL KILLERS - I will be content that indeed they are "Pro-justice".  

We can no longer abstract the resultant conditions in the "eco-systems" where this legal theory and societal management theories dominate.  Clearly there is abundant negative impact that accompanies the 'good' that they proclaim.